By Chris Chang, posted Oct 2, 2010 at 3:55 AM, 1,805 views,

Foxconn Workers Officially Receive 66 Percent Salary Increase

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Foxconn workers having a big party.

Starting from today onwards, Foxconn assembly workers get a pay rise of about 66 per cent to bring salaries to 2,000 yuan (about $299) per month. Foxconn had previously promised that they are offering a second time pay rise to their production line workers in Shenzhen, as early as October 1st. So, the salary increase would benefit about 85 percent of workers at the Shenzhen factory, which employed more than 400,000 people. Here’s a Foxconn worker telling us how happy is he.

I cannot believe the company will raise salaries for a second time within a year. It means my monthly salary will double.

Yeah, the employees definitely deserve more money for assembling so many iPhone 4s and iPads every day.

Source: Xinhua

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  • Anonymous

    that only tells how little they still make …it is scary how different countrys and cultures are

  • http://twitter.com/poppa1138 Jon

    it may seem a little amount in wages compared to western systems,but cost of living is different,maybe thats why the west has lost a lot of manufacturing to the east because of cheaper labour and less unionised.